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Is indirect a Scrabble word?

Yes, indirect is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 11 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of indirect?

Definition

adj (English)

1. Not direct:Examples: "While not mentioning any of their competitors by name, the CEO made some indirect statements that they were acting immorally."; "Se asked him some indirect questions to ascertain whether he was single."; "Indirect messages permit communicative contacts when, without them, the alternatives would be total inhibition, silence, and solitude on the one hand, or, on the other, communicative behavior that is direct, offensive, and hence forbidden. This is a painful choice. In actual practice, neither alternative is likely to result in the gratification of personal or sexual needs. In this dilemma, indirect communications provide a useful compromise. As an early move in the dating game, the young man might invite the young woman to dinner or to the movies."Synonyms: circuitous

2. Not direct:Synonyms: circuitous

3. FigurativelyExamples: "Did you, by indirect, and forced courſes / Subdue, and poyſon this tong Maides affections? / Or came it by requeſt, and ſuch faire queſtion / As ſoule, to ſoule affordeth?"archaic

noun (English)

1. (finance) An indirect cost.Examples: "In the case of a piece of equipment such as a pump, the supplier's costs may be broken down into the directs of labour, material, and component costs on the one hand, and the indirects of customized engineering, sales, factory overheads, and order management costs on the other."; "2010, Anna M. Gil-Lafuente and José M. Merigó (editos), Computational Intelligence in Business and Economics Gradually analytical thinking was taking a greater awareness of the importance it took for all the investigation system of the possible identification or traceability of fixed costs and, in general, of the indirects of other times."

verb (English)

1. (programming, transitive) To access by means of indirection; to dereference.Examples: "The X operations access the data fields by indirecting through the _rep pointer."; "These correspond to an indirected parallel write and an indirected parallel read operation respectively."transitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "indirect"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "indirect"?

Scrabble
11 points
I1
N1
D2
I1
R1
E1
C3
T1
Words With Friends
13 points
I1
N2
D2
I1
R1
E1
C4
T1

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